Semperviva
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Fol. 55r - "Against wounds"
Cut a chicken or a dog to test & in the wound put sap & pestled herb which is called semperviva, that is the small one which has leaves like small grains, which some call vermicularis. And one holds for certain that it will not die.
Contributor
Donald Watts, “Houseleek,” in Dictionary of Plant Lore (Amsterdam: Elsevier/AP, 2007), pp. 202-3, https://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?qurl=https%3a%2f%2fsearch.ebscohost.com%2flogin.aspx%3fdirect%3dtrue%26AuthType%3dip%26db%3de025xna%26AN%3d199215%26site%3dehost-live%26scope%3dsite%26ebv%3DEB%26ppid%3Dpp_202.
"Housesleek", Australian Oxford Dictionary (2 ed.), Oxford University Press (2004), https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195517965.001.0001/m-en_au-msdict-00001-0025644?rskey=Vu0fsp&result=5.
"Housesleek", Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.), Oxford University Press (2015), https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199571123.001.0001/m_en_gb0389240?rskey=Vu0fsp&result=9.
Image: Hans Simon Holtzbecker, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Tidligere tilskrevet, "Sempervivum tectorum (almindelig husløg); Sempervivum montanum (bjerg-husløg)," 1649-1659, Artstor, https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/28354365.
Elia Zhang, Columbia University